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Biden not truthful about Syria conflict: Analyst

saying “I do not think that Vice President Biden is being all that truthful about the real problem that we have in the Middle East,” says Madsen.

US Vice President Joe Biden is not truthful about the years-long conflict in Syria as he does not have a good understanding of the situation in the Middle East, an American analyst says.

“I think Vice President Biden needs to understand who is on whose side in the Middle East,” author and investigative journalist Wayne Madsen told Press TV on Monday.

The terror group is clearly “supported by the Israelis, the Turks and the Saudis; what I have come to call a very unholy alliance of nations,” he added.

The comments came after Biden, who is on a visit to the Middle East, ruled out a military solution to end the years-long conflict in Syria, urging all parties involved to focus on a political settlement.

However, hours later he told hundreds of American and US allied troops that Washington was going to "squeeze the heart of Daesh" out in a fight that "would take time."

The remarks were criticized by Madsen, who said the US currently seems to be “playing the both sides against the middle” when it comes to dealing with the situation in the region.

“I do not think that Vice President Biden has a good command of the situation in the Middle East, although he tries to pretend that he does from his time as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” the analyst added,

Biden chaired the Senate panel from 2007 to 2009, before he became Vice President. He represented Delaware in the Senate since 1973 onwards.

Biden noted on Monday that the fight would take time, but said the US will stay committed until “the evil” is wiped out.

Madsen, however, was cynical about those remarks, saying “I do not think that Vice President Biden is being all that truthful about the real problem that we have in the Middle East.”

The five-year conflict in Syria, started by foreign-backed militants, has consumed the lives of at least 270,000 Syrians, displaced millions more and devastated the war-torn country’s infrastructure.


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